Orange-Alamance County NcArchives Military Records.....White, David September 14, 1832
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of David White, Natl Archives Microseries M805, Roll __, Application #R11406
Orange County, NC, September 14th, 1832, David White, a resident of Hawfields, 
aged 71 years: “That he volunteered as a private in the service of the United 
States about the 1st of June 1780 for a tour of 3 months. That the company to 
which applicant was attached was commanded by Thomas Farmer; one Walls was 
lieutenant and Robert Nelson ensign. That it rendezvoused at ?Pillsboro, 
Chatham County by order of General Butler, where it remained some 5 or 6 days 
till the arrival there of some companies under the command of Col. Stephen 
Moore.”

“We all, under Col. Moore, were marched to Cross Creek, there crossed Cape Fear 
near ?Campbellton? [very faint writing, 3 words-_____ _____ _____] troops which 
were encamped there. From thence under Gen. Caswell, we marched up the Cape 
Fear near to where ?Kingwood now stands and crossed said river at a ferry the 
applicant thinks was called ‘Stroll’s’ or ‘Sproll’s’. From this ferry, still 
under the command of Gen. Caswell, we marched to Drowning Creek, thence to the 
Cross Roads in Randolph County and remained there about 1 week. From thence we 
took a southern direction, crossed the Pedee above the Cheraw in South 
Carolina, marched down the river passing through that town. We advanced to 
Rugeley’s Mills. Before, however, reaching Rugeley’s Mills, we were joined by 
certain Continental troops, and at said Mill, we were joined by General 
Stephens and the Virginia militia, and were all now under the command of 
General Gates, and was under his command when defeated in August 1780 near 
Camden in South Carolina.”

“And after said defeat, this applicant like many of the militia at that defeat, 
returned home. However, after staying but a short time at home, he rejoined the 
army under General Butler near Bell’s mills in Randolph County. From said mills 
was marched under Butler to Salisbury where he remained till the expiration of 
his tour, and received a discharge therefore, from General Butler and returned 
home.”

“This applicant, some time in March following (viz.) 1781, was engaged by 
General Butler as a ‘bearer of dispatches’ in which capacity he acted for 3 
months, and for which service he received a certificate from General Butler and 
was promised by Butler it would accounted and avail him as a 3 months tour in 
the militia. That sometime afterwards, his discharge for his 3 months tour and 
the certificate for his ‘bearing dispatches’ were both laid before the Board of 
Auditors in Hillsboro, ___ this applicant were accepted and he received 
confirmation therefore.”

“That he has, now, no documentary evidence of his services and he know of no 
person whose testimony he can procure, except that of Joseph White and William 
Cummings. That he was born in May 1762, as appeared from his family record, 
which is now lost. That he was living in the Hawfields when called into 
service, that he lives there now, and has lived there ever since the 
Revolution. That in the War of the Revolution, he was acquainted with [that is, 
knew by sight] General Gates, Baron de Kalb, General Smallwood, Gen. Caswell, 
Gen. Butler, Col. Ramsey, Lt. Col. Moore, etc.”

Orange county, NC “On this 14th day of September, Joseph White…maketh oath that 
during the Revolutionary War, he well remembers that David White, an elder 
brother,  was absent in the service and a served 3 months tour in the militia 
in the year 1780, and was at Gates’ Defeat near Camden in South Carolina, as he 
then understood and believed, and subsequently to that tour, he also distinctly 
remembers that said David White was employed by General Butler, as he 
understood at the time, and acted for him 3 or more months as ‘bearer of 
dispatches’ and he also well remembers that it was so understood and believed 
at the time that the period that the said David White rode as ‘bearer of 
dispatches’ was to be accounted and avail him as if he had served one tour of 3 
months in the militia. This affiant is a younger brother, and at the time was 
too young to bear arms.”

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